“There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.”
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The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.